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Patented Oct. 18, 1927.

UNITED STATES sTRAUn K. Woon, or HUTCHINsoN, KANsAs.

CAR-IDENTIFYING MEANS.

Application filed June 15, 1926. Serial No. 116,168.l

The invention is an improvement over the casing element and associated parts of my Patent #1,519,472.

The object of the invention is to produce a holder of such character that it efficiently protects and utilizes a car-identifying card as a sealso that the card cannot be removed without mutilation, oi' without injury to the holder, as mutilationof' such cards, in many States, is the cause for arrest and investigation. A further object is to produce a holder of the type mentioned, which is of simple, strong, durable and attractive appearance.

With these objects in View the invention consists in certain novel and useful features of construction and organizat-ion of parts as hereinafter described and claimed; and in order that it may be readily understood, reference is to be had to the accompanying' drawing, in which 1 Fig. 1 is a front view of one embodiment of my invention.

Fig. 2 is a back View of Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a sectional elevation alongthek lines 3-3 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 4 is a sectional view along the line 4-4 of Fig. 1. f y Fig. 5 is an enlarged d-etail of the mutilation means.

Fig. 6 is an .enlarged view of a portion of Fig. 4.

In the said drawing the holder is shown as composed of two vsheet steel or equivalent members of rectangular form, secured together and sealed in suchy relation by anidentilication card'held between the mem bers and `readable but not accessible through a window in the front member.

The back member 1 is pressed out to provide a rectangular recess 2, and is turned or flanged back at its upper end at 3 to provide a downwardly-opening groove orchannel. W'ithin the recess, is a pair of resilient hooks 7, formed at opposite ends of a plate 8 secured to the back wall. The transparent plate is shown at 10 having depressions 11 moulded therein and adapted to receive the ends of the hooks 7 when pressurel is brought to bear on the plate 10.

The front member 12 corresponds in size and form to member 1, but is flanged at its side margins at 13 to provide grooves for the reception of the side edges of the back member, .and with an upturned flange 14 at its lower end, to produce a groove for the reception of the lower end of the back memvthat when the front and back members ai'e interlocked together as explained, a com# partment for receiving the glass plate and certificate is form-ed; The front member is provided with a window opening 16 with bolt cut outs 17 to register with holes 5 in offset ears 6 in the back. The transparent plate 10 fits snugly in the recess 15, and a flexible identification card 20 is fitted over its inner face and interloclred with'. the plate 10 by being bent over the' upper and lower ends of' the latter as at 21so that the card cannot slip or buckle between said plate and the back member.

On assembling the membersin interlocled relation as explained the transparent plate with the card folded thereover is first placed in its recess in the front plate and the back -f plate 1 slid into position; the card during if `the sliding movement, repiesses the vhooks 7 until a pair of perforations 22 in the ce1 tificate register with the lower ends of the hooks. As this occurs the sliding niovement is completed and the hooks enter the said perforations 22 so that the card or certiticate by engagement with the hooks, serves to make it impossible for the plates to again separate by reverse sliding mov-ement, withupward. Nor. can the: window plate be broken and removed piecemeal to effect the removal of the card without injury to the latter. It the plate 10 is cut out at the margins of opening 16, the card cannot'be removed intact, as there would still remain a frame of glass clamping the card at its margins against the plate of the other or back member. It will be apparent, therefore, that it would be impracticable for anyone to readily remove a card for the purpose of replacing it with a fraudulent one, and even if this was done, it would be instantly discovered when an attempt was made to secure a new license, as with this system it is yout tearing the card from said perforations contemplated that the State authorities shall retain a duplicate of the required card and compare same with the original or a replacement thereof, before issuing a new license or permit.

Nor can the glass 10 be pressed down- Wardly to bend back the hooks or mutilating members 7 and thus render them in effective, as the depressions 11 moulded in the glass l0 receives the ends of the mutilating members T without injury.

I also contemplate providing the cover or front plate with raised letters indicating the State issuing the same as shown at 25. In like manner the same raised lettering appears on the glass 10. This is shown at 26. In order to further prevent substitution of an invalid certificate, I propose to Vsand blast the license number corresponding to the certificate in the back side of the glass as at 27 and provide these same numbers in raised form on the cover vplate as at 2d The holder is'adapted to be secured upon the instrument board or other suitable place on a car. If upon the instrument board, securing bolts 23 are fitted through the registering holes 5 and cut outs 17 and nuts 24 or the like, are employed to clamp the tivo members together and to the said instrument board.

If the law requires that the card contain printed matter on the back as Well as on the front, the holder will preferably be securedadjacent the wind shield, sok that the card may be in convenient position forinspectionat both sides.

` The turned over flanges of both cover and back plates are provided With weakening indentations 29 so that if anY attempt be `made to bend back these fianges to remove' the certificate, the flanges will breakv off and the casing cannot be further used.

y As after the device has been on a car for some time there is a tendency for the front and back to stick together, I provide a tongue 30 in the back which projects through a slot 3l at the bottom of the cover.` IVhen, therefore, the casing is removed and the bolts Q3 removed from the cutout portion of the'cover and ears of the back, the device a may be brought down sharply on a hard surface so as to strike the tongue 30, and the cover and back thus separate.

4I claim c l. In a device of the character described,a r'

casing comprising two slidably-related members, one having a Window opening, a transparent plate covering the opening, a certificate Within the casing, and one or more mutilating members within the casing and adapted to mutilate the certificate in the event the said members are slidably operated to give access to the interior of the casing,v

said transparent plate having a depression `the same. I v

8. In a device of the character described,`

a casing comprising tvvo `members slidingly interlocked together at opposite edges, one having a Window opening, one or more mutilating members within thecasing and fixed thereto as regards one of its said members but capable of repression toward the same, a transparent plate Within the casing between said mutilating members and the said Window opening and closingv the latter to prevent access tothe interior ofthe casing, and a certificate within the casing between the said plate andmutilating members for mutilation by the latter in the event the s'rnarm Woon.

`members are slid to effect separating or dis- 

